Hi I've a very old HP but doesn't one of the function keys give you a boot option. Mind you I've one win laptop and everything else is centos and kubuntu but HP used to be very static in boot options.

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> On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:32, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>  I'm away from home at the moment, and having some problems with a
> laptop.  It's an HP Pavilion "Model 818", purchased from Best Buy in
> December.
>  At the end of February, HP's "Support Assistant" program notified me
> to download and install half a dozen updates.  I did -- and wireless
> hasn't worked since.  The desktop shortcut I set up to allow easy
> enabling/disabling of Wifi now just tells me "Wi-Fi could not be found."
> I had a chance to hook it to a wired network and do a fresh download
> and install of the drivers for the Wifi adapter, but that hasn't made
> any difference.
>  The machine has a 1 TB hard drive, which I've partitioned intending to
> dual-boot to Ubuntu Linux.  All that's stopping me is that I can't get
> it to boot from the install CD.  I believe I set all the BIOS options to
> enable booting from the CD drive, but it doesn't, and now pressing F2
> while booting takes me to a set of hardware diagnostics (I believe one o
> those HP updates installed them), all of which pass, but that means I
> don't even get to the BIOS settings to check that I enabled them.
>  In theory, Best Buy's Geek Squad should help me, but I'm in Canada for
> a bit and I don't know if they even have stores anywhere near me...
>  Anyone got a constructive suggestion on either issue?  T laptop came
> with 64-bit Windows 10 home, so fr now that's the OS I've got access
> to...
> 
>  David Gillett  CISSP CCNP
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